Yangtze
River
The longest river in Asia cuts China in two.
The Yangtze flows for about 6,300 kilometres, from the ice of the Tibetan highlands to the sea at Shanghai. Only the Nile and the Amazon are longer.
More than 400 million people live in the lands around it: more than in the whole of the United States. Halfway along, the river squeezes through the Three Gorges, where the largest power station in the world now stands.
- long
- 6,300 km
- longest river in the world
- 3rd
- people live around it
- 400 million+
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The Three Gorges Dam is more than two kilometres long and makes electricity from the falling water.
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The Chinese see the river as the line between the north and the south of their country.
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A small relative of the dolphin, the finless porpoise, lives in the river and almost nowhere else.
Question 1 of 2
Which rivers are longer than the Yangtze?
- Terracotta ArmyThousands of soldiers of clay, guarding an emperor's tomb.
- Forbidden CityThe palace of China's emperors, closed to ordinary people for five hundred years.
- Ha Long BayA green sea dotted with more than 1,600 limestone islands.
- Great Wall of ChinaNot one wall but many, built over two thousand years.
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